August 15, 2017 - Pouyan successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Synthesis of Amino Ketones Using N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Catalyzed Transformations'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment! He is now off to Montreal to work at Paraza.

April 2016 - Karn is the recipient of a Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship valued at $16,000. Congratulations!

April 5, 2016 - Myron successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis titled 'Preparation of Novel Carbenes and their Catalytic Application to the Cross-Benzoin, Aza-Benzoin and Stetter Reactions'. Congratulations for this great accomplishment!

December 15-20, 2015 - Steven and Michel attend the Pacifichem conference in Honolulu.

September 2014 - Steven is awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Doctoral Promotion Award for 2014-2015. The award is made to one student in the M.Sc. program in chemistry who chooses to promote to the Ph.D. program. Congrats!

September 2014 - Christa Blaquiere joins the group as a new graduate student. Welcome to the group Christa!

September 2014 - The One Man Empire team wins the 7th Synthetic Challenge. Congratulations!

August 2014 - Former PhD student Karen Thai accepts a job offer from Paraza Pharma. She will join Eduardo who is already working there. Congratulations!

June 7, 2012 - The Bazinga! team wins the 5th Synthetic Challenge. Congratulations!

June 5, 2012 - Steven and Sida convocate and receive their B.Sc. Congratulations!

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May 26-30, 2012 - Michel attends the CSC Conference in Calgary.
May 23-26, 2012 - Michel co-organizes with Jeremy Wulff the 11th Organic and Bioorganic Workshop for Leading Young Canadian Chemists in Banff.

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May 2012 - Steven receives a Spinks award and Sida receives a Nixon award to support their summer research. Congratulations!

March 2010 - Michel obtains a second NSERC Discovery Grant. We can keep going for another 5 years!

February 2010 - Michel is awarded a CNC-IUPAC Award. Thanks to this award
(and to his students!), he will be attending the 18th International Conference on Organic Synthesis in Bergen, Norway, in August 2010.